Nate and Danielle answer a listener’s question about debt and how they would approach paying it off. They also talk about smalls ways to save money to help pay off debt faster. Show Notes Two-part question: I was one of those guys who always had money to spend but played with credit cards and dug myself in a number of…
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Episode 44: Trip Budgeting Tips and Tricks
Nate and Danielle review their budget tips and tricks for planning a trip and saving money in the process. Show Notes Listener Question: This listener asks us to go into more detail about travel budgeting. They say “We love to travel and are looking for ways to cut costs so we can spread our budget out over more trips. Just…
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Episode 43: Planning for Kid’s College
Nate and Danielle answer a listener email question about affording college and what to look for when coming up with a college plan for your children. Show Notes Listener Question Would love to hear what you suggest is a good number to save for each child’s education. Or are you trying to reach a certain percentage of college costs (thinking…
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Episode 42: New Years Budget Resolutions
Nate and Danielle discuss their budgeting goals for the year as well as discuss their recent change of banks and the reasons for making some other recent changes to household finances. Show Notes New Year’s Resolutions: Make our money work more – We have been hoarding a lot in checking and savings because there’s been a lot of unknowns with…
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Episode 41: Three Tips for a Budgeting Mindset
Nate talks about his struggles with budgeting and three tips that he has to trick his brain into being better at budgeting. Show Notes
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Episode 40: Cutting the Cord
Nate and Danielle discuss the recent changes that they have made to their cable and internet services along with tips for saving money on your cable bill. Show Notes Our cable/internet bill has been $87 for the past fourish years, but that ended this month. It jumped up over 25% to almost $110 per month. While we use the internet…
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Episode 39: $44K in Debt and an Impulse Shopper
Nate and Danielle answer a listener question on how to setup a budget for paying off debt as quickly as possible while having a variable income and being an impulse shopper. Show Notes Listener Question: I have tried to do a budget with my husband several times now, and we just can never get on the same page. I added…
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Episode 38: Debt Forcing a Budget
Nate and Danielle reflect on recent changes they have made to their budget as answer a listener question. They talk about budgeting apps, mindset, and the need of goals when creating a budget. Show Notes First a quick update on our attempt at controlling our misc expenses. We decided to go with putting $400 in savings each month to be…
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Episode 37: How to Combine Incomes When Getting Married
Tips and tricks on how to combine incomes and lead a financially stable marriage. Nate and Danielle answer a listener question and give a crash course on budgeting advice when you are getting married. Show Notes Listener email So I am getting married next summer and would like some tips and tricks on how to join finances? How to pick…
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Episode 36: Paying Off Debt vs. Saving
Nate and Danielle answer a listener question about how to decide if you should save your money or pay-off debt when you want to buy a house in the near future. Show Notes Listener email: Married with one child and another one on the way. Current make a combined income around $79K before taxes, so we are looking at a…